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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wilkerson believe happens when baptized by the Holy Spirit?
(a) One's mind creates some sort of experience.
(b) A person has such a strong belief in God that s/he gets hot flashes.
(c) Actual physical manifestations of the experience.
(d) God physically touches a person's body.

2. What did Dave find out shortly after his encounter with Nicky?
(a) Nicky dropped out of school in the seventh grade.
(b) One of his early converts had been forced back into the gangs.
(c) Gwen was ill and he needed to return home.
(d) His grandfather was dying.

3. How does Wilkerson research the means of staying off drugs?
(a) By reading the DSM2.
(b) By talking to a drug rehab counselor.
(c) By asking successfully recovering addicts.
(d) By asking cops.

4. What does Nicky tell him when he encounters him?
(a) He wants to be a preacher.
(b) He is getting married.
(c) He is going back to Puerto Rico.
(d) He has returned to the gangs.

5. How does Dave feel about what Nicky tells him?
(a) Sad.
(b) Concerned.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Astounded and excited.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Dave's living quarters like when he returns to New York.

2. How does Maria stand her ground against former gang members who wanted her money?

3. What is the reason that Dave says everything fell into place?

4. From what country is Nicky?

5. What did Dave figure out about conversion and gang members?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author have to say about the economics of drugs?

2. What does Dave do after the priest and him talk?

3. What story does the author tell in Chapter 20 to illustrate the difficulty of breaking a drug habit. Do you agree with his assessment?

4. What did Linda Meisner do at the Center? How did she handle the dangers of her job?

5. Who does he encounter when he arrives back in New York and what does that person tell him?

6. What does Gwen point out that reminds the author of his vision in Chapter 12?

7. Describe how Dave finally made a decision about moving to New York?

8. What was one of the problems that happened occasionally at the center about meals? How was the problem often handled?

9. What were the first stages of his New York ministry, called and what did he do primarily in it?

10. What eventually happened to Maria?

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